Charles Giuliano
Bio:
Publisher & Editor. Charles was the director of exhibitions for the New England School of Art & Design at Suffolk University where he taught art history and the humanities. He taugh tModern Art and the Avant-garde for Metropolitan College of Boston University. After many years as a contributor, columnist and editor for a range of print publications from Art New England, Art News, the Boston Phoenix, the Boston Herald Traveler and Patriot Ledger, to mention a few, he went on line with Maverick Arts which evolved into a website.
Recent Articles:
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Remembering Photographer Arthur Tcholakian Front Page
Armenian Artists in America
By: - Aug 30th, 2018Richard Tashjian was the founder of the Armenian Artists Association of America a group of mostly New England artists of Armenian extraction that banded together to bring their work to the attention of the larger Boston community. With my Armenian heritage I qualified as a member and joined the group.
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Musica Marin Festival Front Page
Talking with Organizer Ruth Ellen Kahn
By: - Aug 30th, 2018Musica Marin Festival runs September 21-23, 2018. Main performing venues are St. Stephen’s Church in Belvedere, Old St. Hillary’s Church in Tiburon, and the exclusive private 9-acre estate in Tiburon.
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Norman Rockwell for Mass Attorney General Front Page
Send a Message to Maura Healey
By: - Aug 30th, 2018Initially, Attorney General Maura Healey opposed the fire sale of Berkshire Museum treasures proposed by now long gone and hardly missed director Van Shields. Those who protested gutting the collection were shocked and dismayed that Healey folded. Commentator Steve Nelson suggests that you send the AG a message. He suggests Norman Rockwell as a write in candidate during the primary on Tuesday, September 4. Nelson is an Op Ed contributor to the Berkhire Eagle.
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Chicago's Black Button Eyes Productions Front Page
Nightmares and Nightcaps: The Stories of John Collier
By: - Aug 30th, 2018I read a lot of short stories, of varied styles and themes. I like the stories of George Saunders, Shirley Jackson, Philip K. Dick and Hilary Mantel, among others. But I have never read stories by John Collier. I’m correcting that gap right now because Black Button Eyes Productions’ world premiere of Nightmares and Nightcaps: The Stories of John Collier is a strange and spooky delight.
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Spike Lee's BlacKkKlansman Front Page
Exploring Blacks in America Post Civil War
By: - Aug 29th, 2018In his latest film, Lee explores the many aspects of the black experience in America since the Civil War. Lee has mellowed since his earlier “controversial, verbal, and incendiary rhetoric” days that some complained about in his movies. But there have never been stronger or more talented chroniclers of the black experience in America than Lee and the great black American playwright August Wilson.
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Here Today Gonzo Tomorrow Word
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Apprentice Scenes Front Page
A Feature of Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 28th, 2018Santa Fe Opera presents the always stirring and diverse Apprentice Scenes. The backstory to these entertainments is that the company has a stellar apprenticeship program each summer that extends beyond singers to include young set designers, costumers, lighters, and the whole array of behind-the-curtain magicians who enhance opera scores to make them lavish events. Of course, it is the singers who are most in evidence, and to call them apprentices is a bit of misnomer.
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Celebrating Jerome Robbins Centennial Front Page
Stars of American Ballet at Pillow
By: - Aug 27th, 2018It has been a summer of celebrating Centennials for Leonard Bernstein and his collaborator, Jerome Robbins. The Jacob's Pillow season ended with Stars of American Ballet. They offered a tribute of five Robbins dances curated by New York City Ballet principal Daniel Ulbricht.
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Tanglewood's Bernstein Centennial Front Page
All Star Tribute Hosted by Audra McDonald
By: - Aug 27th, 2018The summerlong Leonard Bernstein Centennial at Tanglewood ended with an all star celebration hosted by Audra McDonald. Five conductors and numerous guest artists presented a two hour program that featured his music as well as composers like Copland, a close friend, and Mahler, a kindred spirit. John Williams composed a special piece for the occasion. It was a night to remember as a chapter of Tanglewood's vivid history.
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Charles Giuliano and Astrid Hiemer at Bascom Lodge Front Page
Reading and Book Launch on Mt. Greylock Sept. 2
By: - Aug 25th, 2018Charles Giuliano and Astrid Hiemer will present a reading and book launch at Bascom Lodge atop Mt. Greylock on Sunday, September 2. The reception and reading, free and open to the public, will be held from 5 to 7 PM. Following the reading will be a prix fixe dinner for which reservations are required. Hiemer will read from her artist's books and projects. Giuliano is launching his fifth book of gonzo verse "Topsy Turvy."
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Heisenberg By Simon Stephens Front Page
Uncertain Production at Shakespeare & Company
By: - Aug 24th, 2018We much enjoyed the London production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Simon Stephens. It won an Olivier in London and Tony for Best Play on Broadway. We approached his two hander Heisenberg, at Shakespeare & Company, with great expectations. As directed by Tina Packer it didn't pan out.
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Color Spaces by Berkshire Artist Jane Hudson Front Page
At The Left Bank, North Bennington, VT
By: - Aug 24th, 2018Over the past two years, Jane Hudson has been exploring the relationship of color and form, reflecting on the work of early Modernists, e.g, Kandinsky, Miro and Sonia Delaunay. The medium is gouache wherewith one may explore the washes of watercolor as well as the opacity of denser media (acrylic, oil). This versatility allows for the layering of color within active geometric forms.
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Well Intentioned White People Front Page
Barrington Stage Produces Emerging Playwright Rachel Lynett
By: - Aug 23rd, 2018As manifestation of a commitment to social justice theatre Barrington Stage is the first to produce a play by Rachel Lynett. Her Well Intentioned White People focuses on young, gifted and black, tenure track professor, Cass Davis. She teaches Carribean culture and the diaspora at a small, white, liberal college in a Red state. The play relates responses to racist attacks by an unknown assailant.
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A Chorus Line Front Page
At Ivoryton Playhouse
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018A Chorus Line now at Ivoryton Playhouse through Sunday, Sept. 2 is a “singular sensation” as one of its most well-known songs says. The show has everything and this production has almost everything right.
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Cross-Section at Eclipse Mill Gallery Front Page
North Adams Fiber Artists
By: - Aug 22nd, 2018Cross-Section, the inaugural exhibition of North Adams Fiber Artists (NAFA), will open at the Eclipse Mill Gallery on September 7 and run through October 8. The gallery is located in a 40 unit artist/ loft building ar 243 Union Street in North Adams.
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Detroit's Underground Railroad Front Page
Exploring City's Unique History
By: - Aug 21st, 2018Code named “Midnight” by Underground Railroad “conductors,” Detroit provided access to Windsor, Ontario, Canada just across the narrow Detroit River.
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Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally Front Page
A Fabulous Production at Shakespeare & Company.
By: - Aug 20th, 2018Mothers and Sons by Terrence McNally, at Shakespeare & Company, is on the short list of finest productions of the Berkshire summer season. The well crafted play has been tightly directed by James Warwick. A superb cast is inspired by the pivotal, commanding performance by a living legend, Annette Miller. It's a hold onto your seat dense and devastating one act play.
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Doctor Atomic by John Adams Front Page
Santa Fe Opera House
By: - Aug 20th, 2018The Santa Fe Opera House is the perfect venue to stage John Adams’s compelling contemporary opera Doctor Atomic, about the creation of the atomic bomb. With a riveting and intellectual, but sometimes obtuse, libretto by Peter Sellars that is largely taken from historic documents, a story whose outcome we know is still tense and absorbing
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Ariadne auf Naxos by Strauss Front Page
At Santa Fe Opera
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The opera is a play within a play. The “richest man in Vienna” has commissioned an evening’s spectacle at his manor for guests – a serious opera followed by a commedia dell’arte. It has been staged by Santa Fe Opera.
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Leonard Bernstein’s Fancy Free Front Page
Boston Ballet and BSO Collaborate
By: - Aug 19th, 2018The summer long centenary celebration continued last night at Tanglewood with an All Bernstein Program conducted by Andris Nelsons. It featured Fancy Free a 1944 collaboration with choreographe Jerome Robbins for Fancy Free. That theme was expanded into their musical On the Town. The dance was performed in collaboration with Boston Ballet.
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Candide by Voltaire with Bernstein’s Music Front Page
Sante Fe Opera Celebrates Composer’s Centennial
By: - Aug 18th, 2018From its inauspicious Broadway debut in 1956, Candide has led a checkered existence with revisions continuing through 1988. But, despite whatever flaws, it possesses wonderful music, is highly literate and stingingly political. Its real narrative weakness is that there is too much of it. The theme gets driven home too many times with repetitious vignettes that add little. That said, Santa Fe Opera commemorates the Leonard Bernstein centennial with a superior and visually spectacular production of this important work.
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Houston Ballet Front Page
Once in a Blue Moon Visit to Jacob's Pillow
By: - Aug 17th, 2018It's been 40 years since the renowned and well traveled Houston Ballet has visited Jacob's Pillow. The company if noted for its depth in superbly trained principal dancers. There are many individual stars in its firmament. On a hot and steamy night they presented four works, three by artistic director, Stanton Welch AM, one a world premiere, and another by perennial Pillow favorite Trey McIntyre.
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900 Front Page
Revisionist Exhibition at Clark Art Institute
By: - Aug 16th, 2018Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900, is an ambitious, scholarly but problematic exhibition at the Clark Art Institute. It has been drawing large crowds and ends on 3 September.
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West Side Story at Barrington Stage Company Front Page
Smash Hit Celebrates Bernstein's Centennial
By: - Aug 15th, 2018Barrington Stage Company produced West Wide Story eleven years ago and now celebrating the 100th birthday of Leonard Bernstein. In 2013 Barrington sents its production of Bernstein's On the Town to Broadway. With three productions in such a short span it's clear that artistic director, Julianne Boyd, views Bernstein as a bankable winner. Yet again, audiences agree with a sold out run in Pittsfield.
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Detroit Is Open for Business Front Page
The Once-Bankrupt City Blooms
By: - Aug 14th, 2018Here is only a small sampling of new places to eat and stay during a Detroit business trip – or any trip, for that matter. The city has dedicated itself to “coming alive” again, and there’s ample evidence that they’ve made a good start.
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